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enThanksgiving for the Butter-butt (but not the Butterballs)!http://www.nhm.org/nature/blog/thanksgiving-butter-butt-not-butterballs
<div>Hold your horses...give me a moment to clarify this title, I'm talking about birds here! When I say "butter-butt" I'm actually referring to a small grey songbird that has a bright yellow <span>patch on its derri</span><span><span>èr</span>e (</span>yes, this really is what dorky birders like myself call this bird when we're out birding). In particular, I'm talking about the below pictured butter-butt, that narrowly escaped death <span>— </span>hence the giving of thanks. In contrast, all those Butterball turkeys won't be giving much thanks.
</div><p><a href="http://www.nhm.org/nature/blog/thanksgiving-butter-butt-not-butterballs" target="_blank">read more</a></p>http://www.nhm.org/nature/blog/thanksgiving-butter-butt-not-butterballs#commentsAudubon's Warblerbird strikesbutter-buttButterball turkeyKimball GarrettSetophaga coronatathanksgivingwindow strikesYellow-rumped WarblerBlogWed, 21 Nov 2012 07:44:00 +0000Lila Higgins711 at http://www.nhm.org/natureThanksgiving for Mushrooms!http://www.nhm.org/nature/blog/thanksgiving-mushrooms
<p>We're never going to spot a Wild Turkey in the North Campus, but I still wanted to post something related to the Thanksgiving holiday this week. Ah ha! Mushrooms, I thought. Not the Campbell's soup kind, but real honest-to-goodness wild mushrooms<span>—</span>like the ones that are popping up all over L.A. after our recent autumnal rains.In preparation for this blog post I went out searching for mushrooms in the North Campus. What I found was this:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.nhm.org/nature/blog/thanksgiving-mushrooms" target="_blank">read more</a></p>http://www.nhm.org/nature/blog/thanksgiving-mushrooms#commentscampbell's mushroom soupearthstar mushroomfungijack o'lantern mushroomLA mycological societymushroom foraymushroomspuffballthanksgivingwestern destroying angelBlogThu, 24 Nov 2011 03:49:00 +0000Lila Higgins680 at http://www.nhm.org/nature